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| Birth Name(s) : Kareena Kapoor |
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Full Kareena Kapoor Biography
Kareena Kapoor (Hindi: करीना कपूर, born 21 September 1980) nicknamed "Bebo" is an award-winning prominent Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies.
Kapoor was initially approached to make her debut opposite Hrithik Roshan in Rakesh Roshan's Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000). However after several days into the filming, she abandoned the project due to her mother's influence. In an interview, she explained, "It was probably destined that I was not to be in the film. After all, it was a launch for his (Rakesh Roshan) son. The whole focus was on the boy. Now I am glad I did not do the movie."
Her career commenced with an unconventional role in J.P. Dutta’s moderately successful Refugee (2000) opposite Abhishek Bachchan, proclaiming that she wanted "to be known as a powerful actress." The film centred around the India-Pakistan conflicts, showing a young man, Refugee, who carries out the illegal activity of taking civilians to Pakistan and forth. Kapoor's performance of Naaz, a Bangladeshi girl, who falls in love with him while migrating to Pakistan along with her family, won her critical acclaim. Critic Taran Adarsh from indiafm.com noted, "Kareena Kapoor has a magnetic personality, which will make the viewer fall in love with her instantly. On a scale of 10, Kareena's performance deserves 9 marks, dialogue delivery 8 and overall personality 10. What surprises you is the ease with which she emotes the most difficult of scenes, that too against experienced performers. There's no denying the fact that she is a natural performer who is very camera friendly."
However, subsequent films like Yaadein and Asoka did poorly at the box office but her breakthrough performance of a princess in the latter was acclaimed and earned Kapoor her first Filmfare nomination for Best Actress. Later that year, she starred in Abbas Mustan's thriller Ajnabee. Although the film tackled an audacious theme of wife swapping, which critics thought the Indian audience would find hard to absorb and identify with, the film fared reasonably well and became one of the highest grossing films of the year.
After these successes, Kapoor was in high demand and was signed to many new films, but most of them were not as successful as those which had given her the spotlight attention. In 2002, she starred alongside Hrithik Roshan and Rani Mukerji in Kunal Kohli's directorial debut Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002), which was her first film with the biggest production house in Bollywood: Yash Raj Films. Although much anticipated, the film was a critical and commercial failure in India but fared well overseas, especially in the U.K. The film dealt with a love story between three childhood friends and saw Kapoor play Tina, a girl of today's generation. Faiz Khan criticized her, "Kareena Kapoor seems to have stepped off the Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham sets and simply had a change of name, from Pooja to Tina for this film. But what was novel in that film, is contrived here. What was exciting in K3G, is irritating here."
This was followed in 2003 by Sooraj R. Barjatya's love-triangle Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon, co-starring Hrithik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan. Produced by Rajshri Productions, the film also failed commercially and critically in India but proved to be a hit overseas. Kapoor's performance of Sanjana, the center of two men was criticized, "Kareena comes off as very inexperienced, mouthing dialogs synthetically, and going over the top in emotional scenes far too often." Critics began criticizing her for enacting repetitious kind of roles in her films and expressing that she was indeed in serious danger of becoming typecast, which was fundamental in her attempting a diversity of more adventurous roles in the years following.
36 China Town was Kapoor's first release in 2006 followed by Chup Chup Ke. Both films managed to do moderately well at the box office. However, she was mostly noticed with her portrayal of Desdemona in the Indian adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, Omkara. Her performance was praised, earning her a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance and a Star Screen Award for Best Actress as well as various nominations for Best Actress at different award ceremonies. Critic Naresh Kumar Deoshi wrote, "Kareena Kapoor once again shows her acting prowess in playing a role that has no glamour but lots of substance. She brings out the innocence and the vulnerability of her character."
In October 2007, during her breakup with Kapoor, rumours began floating around that she was seeing actor Saif Ali Khan. On October 18, 2007, during Manish Malhotra's grand finale show at the Lakme Fashion Week, Khan confirmed their relationship to the media saying, "Yes, we are not exactly shouting from the rooftops but yes, clearly we are together. And we are happy together!"
In March 2005, she visited the desert heartland of Rajasthan to boost the morales of the jawans. It was for a special Holy weekend episode on the Jai Jawan show, where entertainers and stars visited Indian troops in far-flung regions to encourage them along with the NDTV team. |
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